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PART IV. HOUSING
The five year programme for the clearance of unfit
houses, started in 1954 was completed by the end of the
year The growth of the district took place with great
rapidity between the wars i.e. from a population of 6,300
in 1921 to 51,370 in 1939. Consequently the number of old
houses in the district is a very small proportion of the
total and the number of unfit houses to be dealt with was
at the start only 128. During the course of the programme
17 Clearance Orders were made 6 of which led to enquiries
being held by Inspectors of the Ministry of Housing and
Local Government, no modifications to the Council's proposals
resulted from these enquiries and the 31 houses
dealt with as individually unfit did not lead to any appeals
to the County Court.
A small number of houses which have become unfit since
the five year programme was drawn up, will soon be reported
to the Council for action.
The routine inspection of houses under the Housing
and Public Health Acts was carried out to a limited extent
throughout the year one would like to do much more of
this work but the staff have been fully occupied on more
pressing matters.